Oxylabs Web Scraper API

Founded: 2015 Website: oxylabs.io/products/scraper-api/web

Web scraping API from big proxy player Oxylabs.

Oxylabs is a proxy provider which was founded in 2015, started active proxy sales in 2016, and started offering its first version of web scraping API (which they called "Real-Time Crawler") in ~2019.

Oxylabs web scraping APIs

Oxylabs now offers a range of web scraping APIs, including:

SERP Scraper API
Real Estate Scraper API
Genering Web Scraper API
Web Crawler
E-Commerce Scraper API

Free Plan:

1 week trial

Pricing:

Starts from $49/mo, 17,500 results, geo-targeting

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About Pixeljets

Anton Sidashin

As a web developer and CTO with over 15 years of experience, I am passionate about building profitable small SaaS products and pursuing Go-to-Market strategy for them. My areas of expertise include high performance, networking technology and APIs, SRE, automation using Puppeteer.js, web scraping, and SQL databases.

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My blog posts

Choosing a proxy for web scraping
Once you're familiar with basic web scraping tools like Scrapy, and you've scraped your first 1-2 websites, you'll probably get your first ban because your IP address has made too many requests
Building modern and production ready Node.js API: my boring setup
I know how this desire to try out a new flashy npm package in a quick project can easily paralyze my will and the whole project's progress over exploring new docs and code. So in this writeup I would like to give appreciation to all the tools and techniques that have proven to be effective for me.